On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 01:16:20PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: > * Andrey Zhidenkov wrote: > > > I'm using mutt about 6 month. For this time I have about 5000 messages > > in my mbox folder. What format is preffered for using with many > > messages? Is Maildir faster? I read in this mailing list that someone > > stores his mail in the folder, organized by years and month. I think > > that is very good idea. Is it very difficult to do that? > > It depends on how you receive mail. If you use fetchmail (or the like) > it's unlikely that you modify a folder during fetchmail is running and > thus mbox likely is a bit faster. Otherwise maildir is the choice as it > has no concurrency issues.
I guess this also concerns the filesystem in use. Though not tested myself, I think maildir is more suitable on a ReisorFS (for instance) partition than on an EXT3 one. Because one is dealing with thousands of small files here, which is a nightmare to many FS. -- There is no emotion; there is peace. There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. There is no passion; there is serenity. There is no death; there is the Force.
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